November 13, 2025
AI Music: When Listeners Cannot Tell the Difference
Music Business Worldwide reports that fully AI-generated songs now make up 34% of all tracks uploaded daily to Deezer – up from 10,000 in January to 50,000 today. A five-fold increase in ten months.
Even more striking, 97% of listeners could not distinguish AI-generated from human-created music in a global blind test. More than half said they were uncomfortable with that.
If this trajectory continues, AI tracks could soon outnumber human ones. What does that mean for originality, copyright, and the livelihood of real artists?
Streaming platforms, publishers and rights-holders now face a future where authenticity is almost impossible to detect. The speed of change leaves little time to adapt.
As someone who works closely with rights-holders and estates, I find this shift deeply unsettling. The flood of AI-generated music is blurring the boundary between real creativity and machine output faster than the industry can respond. Unless transparency and licensing frameworks evolve quickly, we risk a market where human creation is drowned out – and devalued.
This is not just a technological challenge. It goes to the heart of what music represents — expression, identity and ownership.
The task ahead is clear: the industry must reassert the value of human authorship before it is lost in the noise.
Source: Music Business Worldwide